I grew up in a cycling family. We cycled around our local neighbourhood, and also did hub-and-spoke tours.

For example ...

From the time I was 10-ish until I was about 17, my family would rent a cabin in the Canadian Rockies, mostly in Banff, for about a week.

On a few days we would go hiking together and on a few other days we'd cycle.

When we hiked, we would all go together, but when we would cycle we would do it something like this ...

My father, the strongest and fastest cyclist would head out early in the morning and cycle past the destination my mother, younger brother, and I were aiming for. Meanwhile my mother, younger brother and I would sleep in a little bit then get going ourselves. We got pretty good at the timing so that we would meet my father, on his way back, at our destination or near to it. Then, because he'd had a good, hard ride ... we would all ride together on the way back to the cabin.


The thing is, even if your family isn't up to a tour yet or isn't all that keen on cycling, maybe you can pick a location with things everyone would like doing. Spend a day doing something with the kids. Spend a day with your wife. Spend a day out cycling while they go off and do something else. Or be creative and if your wife and kids are going to drive out to a tourist destination, you leave early and cycle there and meet them ... then cycle back.

That way you all get to enjoy somewhere different.